"Your condition as free men is in danger. Spain is invaded by the tyrants of all humanity, who want to make her [into] another Abyssinia. All have decided to defend our future. [All have decided] never to tolerate this civilization of whip and axe on the neck of the workers. We must be generous in [the use of] force remembering the saying of the teacher Carl Marx: 'The emancipation of the workers is the work of those same workers.'"